2018-2019

April 2019: Our stochastic model of serotonergic fibers is selected for the cover of a special issue of Biochimie.

March 2019: Our interdisciplinary team has been awarded NSF supplemental funding for supercomputing. We are among the first national teams to be granted access to Frontera, a next-generation NSF supercomputer.

November 2018: The laboratory presented at the 2018 Society for Neuroscience meeting: The Deep Structure of the Brain Serotonergic Matrix.

August 2018: The laboratory has been awarded a CRCNS grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

2017-2018

June 2018: The laboratory has been awarded an R21 grant by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

May 2018: Riley Demos has received the Morgan Award for Academic Excellence in Psychological and Brain Sciences. This award is given to a graduating student at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in recognition of outstanding scholarship, as selected by the faculty.

May 2018: Riley Demos presented her research at the 2018 Undergraduate Research Colloquium: Serotonin-releasing Fibers May Perform Random Walks in the Brain.

May 2018: Keon Youssefzadeh and Norma Brown presented their research at the 2018 Undergraduate Research Colloquium: Transmigration at the Circumventricular Organs and the Microglia-Serotonin Matrix.

December 2017: The laboratory has been awarded a Challenge - New Partnerships Grant by the California NanoSystems Institute (Brain Serotonergic Fibers: From a Single-cell Stochastic Process to Cognition in a Matrix).

December 2017: Riley Demos has been awarded an URCA grant.

December 2017: Norma Brown and Keon Youssefzadeh have been awarded an URCA grant.

2016-2017

June 2017: Elizabeth Sopira, Kayla Riparetti, and Savannah Starr have received Distinction in the Major (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology).

May 2017: Marcus Vicari has received the Morgan Award for Academic Excellence in Psychological and Brain Sciences. This award is given to a graduating student at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in recognition of outstanding scholarship, as selected by the faculty.

May 2017: Marcus Vicari has received the 2016-2017 College of Letters and Science Frances Colville and Terry Dearborn Memorial Award. The award recognizes outstanding scholarship and contributions to the campus community by a graduating senior with a major in the Division of Mathematics, Life & Physical Sciences.

May 2017: Samuel Phillips and Nicki Nikkhoy presented their research at the 2017 Undergraduate Research Colloquium: Brain Regional Dependence on Blood Platelets.

May 2017: Keon Youssefzadeh and Norma Brown presented their research at the 2017 Undergraduate Research Colloquium: The Microglia-Serotonin Matrix and Blood Platelets.

April 2017: Melissa Hingorani (a Ph.D. student) has joined the laboratory.

February 2017: Kasie Mays (a Ph.D. student) has joined the laboratory.

December 2016: Norma Brown and Keon Youssefzadeh have been awarded an URCA grant.

December 2016: Nicki Nikkhoy and Samuel Phillips have been awarded an URCA grant.

November 2016: Dr. Skirmantas Janusonis's book review in Visual Neuroscience is cited by the MIT Press 2017 catalog. The full review is available here.

November 2016: Savannah Starr, Marcus Vicari, Kayla Riparetti, and Scott Lunell presented a poster (The Brain Serotonin Matrix: Platelet and Microglial Elements) at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, California.

November 2016: One focus of our research has been featured in The Bottom Line.

September 2016: Dr. Skirmantas Janusonis commented on new research findings for VICE.

2015-2016

June 2016: Keon Youssefzadeh, Nicki Nikkhoy, and Norma Brown have joined the laboratory.